Thursday, March 6, 2008

The loopy Ewe

  • Started off with a scrap booking company
    • Once digital cameras came into play people stopped printing pictures
  • Started a yarn shop, didn’t want the retail hours
  • Decided to make a online yarn shop
    • Started in a basement
    • Grew into out of the house into 180,000ft of office space.
    • Wanted to retain repeat customers
  • Have a nitch market (socks, soft yarn)
  • Retain customers by customer relations
  • Made the website unique
    • Built from the ground up
    • Moldable
    • Can put customer features on
      • Distinguish yourself
    • Look at competitors and see what they do good
      • Used hard boxes to insure product quality.
    • High quality photos
  • Personalized notes, signed name and make it look hand written
  • Getting loyalty out of customers
    • Have to go out of your way to help them
      • Blog, email, phone, etc.
      • Personalize it, make a connection
      • Loopy’s Summer Vacation
    • Exceed their expectation (give them more then usual)
    • Not the typical return policy

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